Senior Vice President, ProductsAppia

THIS JOB HAS EXPIRED

Founded in June 2008, Appia is the world's largest open app marketplace delivering app downloads to over 700 million users around the world. Built on a robust carrier-grade platform, Appia serves apps to millions of customers per day in virtually every country and has delivered 500 million apps and counting.

The Appia Ad Network, powered by our 50+ publishers, is a performance based advertising solution for the Appia developer community. Developers simply set the bid price they want to pay per download and choose the geographies they want to target to prominently feature their app across Appia?s marketplace. Appia provides application distribution and marketing solutions for developers including Facebook, Priceline, Disney, GREE and DeNA, and distribution partners including Am-rica M-vil, Vodafone, Airtel, Telcel, Zedge and Myxer.

Appia has raised $30M in funding from Venrock, DCM?s A-Fund, Trident Capital, Eric Schmidt?s TomorrowVentures, Relay Ventures, the Social Internet Fund, Noro-Moseley Partners, and Wakefield Group. The Wall Street Journal ranked Appia #22 on its list of the Top 50 Venture Backed Companies in 2012, the second year in a row that Appia has made the WSJ list of the Top 50, known as ?The Next Big Thing?.

Appia?s management team has worked together before as part of the leadership that helped grow mobile data company Motricity to more than $100M in annual revenues. Under the leadership of Jud Bowman, founder of both Motricity and Appia, the team has deep bench strength in mobile and digital media technologies, and enviable relationships throughout the mobile advertising ecosystem. They have delivered exceptional results as measured both by the reach of their solution across the developer and publisher landscape, and most importantly, on revenue growth. With this success in hand the company has created a new position on the executive team, SVP Products, to lead and execute the product strategy.

The name Appia comes from the ancient Roman highway Via Appia. Built in the 4th Century BC, the Appian Way became one of the most strategically important roads and distribution channels in ancient Rome. It connected people, moved troops, and fostered tremendous economic growth. That is our mission today ? to connect application developers and markets and foster the huge mobile application ecosystem.

Appia is headquartered in Durham, NC with an office in downtown San Francisco. For more information, please visit http://www.appia.com or follow @Appia.

Candidate Profile

As a key member of the executive team, the SVP Products will report directly to the company?s founder & CEO, Jud Bowman. The candidate will bring to the team solid experience in delivering profitable products within the mobile advertising space. Ideally, the candidate will have contributed in the recent past to the success of a leading mobile advertising technology company where s/he developed the key skills to be successful in this role:

Strategy/Vision of how the mobile advertising business is evolving
Hands-on know expertise in building and delivering mobile ad technology products
Abundant and important relationships with partners driving innovation and solutions in the mobile advertising space
This role requires a product executive that is equally comfortable working with the product management and engineering teams on tactical deliverables, as well as participating and leading strategic initiatives both internally and externally that drive the company?s product and business forward. In a nutshell, this role demands someone that can lead the product strategy and execution of Appia?s rapidly growing mobile advertising business.

Professional Characteristics

Demonstrated experience defining product strategy and leading the organizations that built best in class mobile adverting systems, ideally SSP/DSP products.
A 10+ year career track with progressively responsible product oriented roles - spanning a combination of mobile and digital advertising companies.
Experience managing the product life cycle, including business plans, pricing, competitive analysis, new product introduction and product launches.
Solid understanding of agile development methodologies and product development processes.
Success in taking one product and expanding that into an entire product portfolio.
Eagerness to partner with the sales team to understand and prioritize customer product needs.
An infectious customer-centric focus with the ability to understand, simplify and communicate technical product specifications and functionality to both internal and external audiences.
An established set of relationships with most of the major advertisers and publishers.
Educational background in engineering or Computer Science, plus an MBA qualification is highly desirable.
Management/Personal Characteristics

Product DNA, but with a strong visionary/ strategic product perspective - equally comfortable talking Scrum methodologies with the development team and discussing industry trends at the Board Meeting.
Results orientation with exceptional time management and organizational skills, including the ability to accurately gauge project duration, deliver quality output on budget and on time, solve problems and see them through to resolution.
Excellent communication skills - both speaking and listening. A demonstrated ability to influence and gain buy-in from all internal stakeholders.
A decisive and inspiring leader that can ensure the development and nurturing of ?star? performance within the team.
Ability to work well cross-functionally across the company and with the Board.
Respected in the mobile advertising industry - a recognized product leader that is known for delivering great products.
Entrepreneurial in outlook; polished, confident, outgoing.